Muon density in extensive air showers measured with IceTop / vorgelegt von Daniel Bindig. Wuppertal, 27. Juli 2018
Content
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Cosmic Rays
- The IceTop detector
- Particles passing through matter
- InIce and IceTop
- Experimental data
- Local coincidences
- IceTop Trigger and Filter
- Charge calibration
- Snow on IceTop tanks
- Atmospheric conditions
- Simulation
- Reconstruction and event selection
- Preparations of the used signals
- Reconstruction procedure
- First guess reconstructions
- Functions used for reconstruction
- Shower size correction due to snow
- Overview of the reconstruction
- Event selection
- Comparison between simulation and data
- Enhancement of events
- Muon number estimation
- Motivation
- Separation of signal
- Properties of signal and background
- Cut on the hit charge
- Cut on the hit distance
- Discussion
- Consistency check
- Muon number estimators
- Summary
- Calculation of muon number densities
- The true muon number density true (R)
- Discussion
- Energy conversion
- Development on simulation
- Application on experimental data
- Systematic uncertainties
- Consistency check
- Results
- Summary
- Discussion and outlook
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Glossary